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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 2 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ptomato ◴[09 Sep 16 16:28 UTC] No.12463733[source]▶
It looks like in 10.12 Apple has added TCC.db to SIP, so this will no longer work — Dropbox will, hopefully, actually be forced to request accessibility access like they're supposed to. I'm sure they'll still demand your admin password via a dialog that tries super hard to look like a system one to use for whatever other more or less nefarious purposes. Would be nice if there was an alternative that actually syncs as reliably and performantly, but in my testing that's very much not the case.

I appreciate the trend of Apple forcing Dropbox to stop doing dumb shit, though. (Previously, of course, the SIMBL-style Finder hacking)

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cdubzzz ◴[09 Sep 16 21:19 UTC] No.12466132[source]▶
We use OneDrive at work and it works pretty much exactly as well as I recall Dropbox working back when I used it.
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1. ptomato ◴[09 Sep 16 21:40 UTC] No.12466258[source]▶
When I last tried it the performance was abysmal, almost as bad as Google Drive. Also, no Linux client. I didn't use it enough to know if it has the same conflict issues as many of the other ones I tried — Microsoft may well have managed to get that right.
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2. JoBrad ◴[09 Sep 16 22:59 UTC] No.12466621[source]▶
There is an open onedrive client that works great.